Eric Schatzberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 983566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Schatzberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Schatzberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHATZBERG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7444-2093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historiography: Why Should Historians Pay More Attention to Philosophy of Technology
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology marks the maturity of the philosophy of technology, which has lagged behind the history of technology as a distinct field. The book's thirty-two chapters span almost seven hundred pages, written by thirty-four authors from twelve countries. Shannon Vallor, professor of philosophy at University of Edinburgh, edited the volume and wrote its excellent introduction, which provides a historical framing t…
Missing the mark: A response to Bray and Hahn
I want to thank the editors of History and Technology for allowing me to respond to Francesca Bray and Barbara Hahn’s essay, which is a critique of my book, Technology: Critical History of a Concep
Where do Models of Innovation Come From? Benoit Godin, Models of Innovation
Where do Models of Innovation Come From? Benoit Godin, Models of Innovation Eric Schatzberg (bio) In Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, pp. 344, hardcover $37), Benoît Godin, Professor of Science Studies at INRS in Montreal, has produced a thoroughly researched and carefully argued intellectual history of twentieth-century thinking about what we now term “technological innovation.” He frames his analysis…
Why is there no discipline of technology in the social sciences
In this paper, I try to understand why no major field of technology ever emerged in the English-language social sciences, using 19th century anthropology as a case study. According to etymology, technology should refer to a logos, a field of study or discourse, about techne, technical knowledge and practice. Yet no such general field exists. Instead, during first half of the 20th century, the English term technology lost its earlier meaning as a …
From Art to Applied Science
Before "applied science" and "technology" became keywords, the concept of art was central to discourse about material culture and its connections to natural knowledge. By the late nineteenth century, a new discourse of applied science had replaced the older discourse of art. This older discourse of art, especially as presented in Enlightenment encyclopedias, addressed the relationship between art and science in depth. But during the nineteenth ce…
Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture (review)
Reviewed by: Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture Eric Schatzberg (bio) Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture By Gregory H. Davis. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. xix+211. $33. In this ambitious but flawed book, Gr…
Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930
Recent scholarship has shown that the present-day meanings of the term technology are relatively recent. In nineteenth-century English, technology referred principally to a field of study concerned with the practical arts; it did not refer to industrial processes or artifacts, except in anomalous usage. In German-speaking regions, a new discourse emerged around die Technik in the second half of the nineteenth century. This German term referred to…
On Attempting to Construct Alternative Narratives
Symbolic Culture and Technological Change: The Cultural History of Aluminum as an Industrial Material
The history of aluminum illustrates how the concept of symbolic meanings can help connect culture with business history. Aluminum's symbolic meanings played a crucial role in its industrial history, largely through the enthusiasm that greeted the introduction and diffusion of the metal. Symbolic meanings influence technological innovation through their role in shaping expectations, a role understood by the historical actors who engage in struggle…
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (review)
This provocative but flawed book predicts a coming technological revolution that will make capitalism environmentally sustainable. The authors, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, have written extensively on these topics for many years. Hawken, a "green" entrepreneur, is best known for advocating ecologically sound business practices in his thoughtful Ecology of Commerce (1993). Amory Lovins gained international [End Page 218] attent…
Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914-1945
Journal Article Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914–1945. By Eric Schatzberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 313 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-691-08773-3.) Get access William F. Trimble William F. Trimble Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pa…
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Reviewed by: Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing * Eric Schatzberg (bio) Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. By Henry Petroski. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii+242; illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. $24.95. Henry Petroski is in many ways the Stephen Jay Gould of civil engineering. Like Gould, Petroski is a respected academic in a technical field who has built…
Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrial Development . Ian Inkster
"Comment on the Review of "Barons of the Sky
Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945
Entre 1919 et 1939, les materiaux metalliques ont progressivement remplace le bois dans les constructions aeronautiques. Un tel choix traduit-il une avancee technologique ou le triomphe d'une ideologie
Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics, 1890-1940 . Henry Cord Meyer
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare-the Story of the American Aerospace Industry by Wayne Biddle
838 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE useful reference sources and are helpful additions to the literature, but they have little to say as to the cultural context and consequences of this very important technology. David K. van Keuren Dr. van Keuren is historian with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He is interested in 20th-century American science and is currently editing Science and the Federal Patron: Post World War II Gover…
Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things
Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things by Ron Westrum
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 391 Divided. We Stand has many strengths. Schwarz and Thompson provide a complex analysis in a clear, direct, understandable way. The book is written with style and wit; case studies illuminate arguments and help persuade the reader. I was convinced by their critique of current technology assessment, by their redefinition of technology as politically embedded from its inception, and by their argument for an alt…
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare-The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
This panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's military-industrial complex: Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan and Malcolm Loughead of Lockheed. Weaving together institutional history and individual biography, Wayne Biddle depicts the years of uncertainty after World War I, the bon…
Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930
Recent scholarship has shown that the present-day meanings of the term technology are relatively recent. In nineteenth-century English, technology referred principally to a field of study concerned with the practical arts; it did not refer to industrial processes or artifacts, except in anomalous usage. In German-speaking regions, a new discourse emerged around die Technik in the second half of the nineteenth century. This German term referred to…
From Art to Applied Science
Before "applied science" and "technology" became keywords, the concept of art was central to discourse about material culture and its connections to natural knowledge. By the late nineteenth century, a new discourse of applied science had replaced the older discourse of art. This older discourse of art, especially as presented in Enlightenment encyclopedias, addressed the relationship between art and science in depth. But during the nineteenth ce…
Why is there no discipline of technology in the social sciences
In this paper, I try to understand why no major field of technology ever emerged in the English-language social sciences, using 19th century anthropology as a case study. According to etymology, technology should refer to a logos, a field of study or discourse, about techne, technical knowledge and practice. Yet no such general field exists. Instead, during first half of the 20th century, the English term technology lost its earlier meaning as a …
On Attempting to Construct Alternative Narratives
Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945
Entre 1919 et 1939, les materiaux metalliques ont progressivement remplace le bois dans les constructions aeronautiques. Un tel choix traduit-il une avancee technologique ou le triomphe d'une ideologie
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare-the Story of the American Aerospace Industry by Wayne Biddle
838 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE useful reference sources and are helpful additions to the literature, but they have little to say as to the cultural context and consequences of this very important technology. David K. van Keuren Dr. van Keuren is historian with the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He is interested in 20th-century American science and is currently editing Science and the Federal Patron: Post World War II Gover…
Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things
Technologies and Society: The Shaping of People and Things by Ron Westrum
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 391 Divided. We Stand has many strengths. Schwarz and Thompson provide a complex analysis in a clear, direct, understandable way. The book is written with style and wit; case studies illuminate arguments and help persuade the reader. I was convinced by their critique of current technology assessment, by their redefinition of technology as politically embedded from its inception, and by their argument for an alt…
Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare-The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
This panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's military-industrial complex: Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan and Malcolm Loughead of Lockheed. Weaving together institutional history and individual biography, Wayne Biddle depicts the years of uncertainty after World War I, the bon…
Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics, 1890-1940 . Henry Cord Meyer
"Comment on the Review of "Barons of the Sky
Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945
Entre 1919 et 1939, les materiaux metalliques ont progressivement remplace le bois dans les constructions aeronautiques. Un tel choix traduit-il une avancee technologique ou le triomphe d'une ideologie
Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrial Development . Ian Inkster
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Reviewed by: Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing * Eric Schatzberg (bio) Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. By Henry Petroski. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii+242; illustrations, figures, bibliography, index. $24.95. Henry Petroski is in many ways the Stephen Jay Gould of civil engineering. Like Gould, Petroski is a respected academic in a technical field who has built…
Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914-1945
Journal Article Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914–1945. By Eric Schatzberg. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xvi, 313 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-691-08773-3.) Get access William F. Trimble William F. Trimble Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pa…
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (review)
This provocative but flawed book predicts a coming technological revolution that will make capitalism environmentally sustainable. The authors, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, have written extensively on these topics for many years. Hawken, a "green" entrepreneur, is best known for advocating ecologically sound business practices in his thoughtful Ecology of Commerce (1993). Amory Lovins gained international [End Page 218] attent…
Symbolic Culture and Technological Change: The Cultural History of Aluminum as an Industrial Material
The history of aluminum illustrates how the concept of symbolic meanings can help connect culture with business history. Aluminum's symbolic meanings played a crucial role in its industrial history, largely through the enthusiasm that greeted the introduction and diffusion of the metal. Symbolic meanings influence technological innovation through their role in shaping expectations, a role understood by the historical actors who engage in struggle…
On Attempting to Construct Alternative Narratives
Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930
Recent scholarship has shown that the present-day meanings of the term technology are relatively recent. In nineteenth-century English, technology referred principally to a field of study concerned with the practical arts; it did not refer to industrial processes or artifacts, except in anomalous usage. In German-speaking regions, a new discourse emerged around die Technik in the second half of the nineteenth century. This German term referred to…
Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture (review)
Reviewed by: Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture Eric Schatzberg (bio) Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture By Gregory H. Davis. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. Pp. xix+211. $33. In this ambitious but flawed book, Gr…
From Art to Applied Science
Before "applied science" and "technology" became keywords, the concept of art was central to discourse about material culture and its connections to natural knowledge. By the late nineteenth century, a new discourse of applied science had replaced the older discourse of art. This older discourse of art, especially as presented in Enlightenment encyclopedias, addressed the relationship between art and science in depth. But during the nineteenth ce…
Why is there no discipline of technology in the social sciences
In this paper, I try to understand why no major field of technology ever emerged in the English-language social sciences, using 19th century anthropology as a case study. According to etymology, technology should refer to a logos, a field of study or discourse, about techne, technical knowledge and practice. Yet no such general field exists. Instead, during first half of the 20th century, the English term technology lost its earlier meaning as a …
Where do Models of Innovation Come From? Benoit Godin, Models of Innovation
Where do Models of Innovation Come From? Benoit Godin, Models of Innovation Eric Schatzberg (bio) In Models of Innovation: The History of an Idea (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, pp. 344, hardcover $37), Benoît Godin, Professor of Science Studies at INRS in Montreal, has produced a thoroughly researched and carefully argued intellectual history of twentieth-century thinking about what we now term “technological innovation.” He frames his analysis…
Missing the mark: A response to Bray and Hahn
I want to thank the editors of History and Technology for allowing me to respond to Francesca Bray and Barbara Hahn’s essay, which is a critique of my book, Technology: Critical History of a Concep
Historiography: Why Should Historians Pay More Attention to Philosophy of Technology
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology marks the maturity of the philosophy of technology, which has lagged behind the history of technology as a distinct field. The book's thirty-two chapters span almost seven hundred pages, written by thirty-four authors from twelve countries. Shannon Vallor, professor of philosophy at University of Edinburgh, edited the volume and wrote its excellent introduction, which provides a historical framing t…
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